Motivational Quotes

Change

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Change

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan